Insights into the Physiology and Ecology of the Brackish-Water-Adapted Cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena CCY9414 Based on a Genome-Transcriptome Analysis

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Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Voß, Björn ^a   Bolhuis, Henk ^b   Fewer, David P ^c   Kopf, Matthias ^a   Möke, Fred ^d   Haas, Fabian ^a   El Shehawy, Rehab ^e   Hayes, Paul ^f   Bergman, Birgitta ^g   Sivonen, Kaarina ^c   Dittmann, Elke ^h   Scanlan, Dave J ⁱ   Hagemann, Martin ^d   Stal, Lucas J ^b,j   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e IMDEA WATER INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NITROGEN; NODULARIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORUS; RNA; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM NODULARIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON;

ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NODULARIA;

CYANOBACTERIA; NODULARIA SPUMIGENA; NOSTOCALES;

EID: 84875521277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060224     Document Type: Article

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